Andrea Brook is a golden-haired yoga instructor who has studied in the Far East and is devoted to helping others discover their inner peace through yoga and meditation. For Chakra Beats she has partnered up with musician Billy Close, mixing trance-inducing beats and rhythms with soothing yoga instruction. It's a smooth, silky ride up the seven body chakras, each track suggesting a specific form of breath, movement, and repose.

For the first chakra, Brook aims to provide "a foundation, where we can set our feet, rest our body, allow ourselves to feel what we need, to become everything that is our right to be, our right to discover, the most beautiful light." With an accented soul beat and washes of synthesizer providing a firm but ever-shifting ground on which to stretch out and relax, Close brings in a lot of heaviness that contrasts lovingly with Brook's light. Each chakra is linked to its associated color, tonality, and element: "Svadishana" (chakra 2) echoes with water droplets, while "Manipura" (chakra 3) rustles and flexes with bashing drums and crunchy guitars. "Anahata"—the love chakra—finds Close bringing in evocative Moby-ish piano lines and soft rhythm as Brook has you bring your hands close together without clapping to create "the sound made when two things intersect, without striking."

For "Visshuda – Purifications" (chakra five), Brook notes that the key to purification is to let go of fear through speaking out: "Fear rises to the level of our throat, where it either gets stuck or it is purified; we release it, we speak the truth. When we allow for our truth to be spoken, our creativity to be expressed, our energy begins to move upward." For this "aesthetic revelation," Close supplies a junkyard scrabble of beats. By the final chakra, we "have reached the crown of our experience." "When we step into this crown we view our whole self. "Imagine a lotus flower with one thousand petals, within each of those petals is the nectar of consciousness." The beats here are steady, midtempo, assured—the time has come for leaving all beats and pain and discomfort behind; no more restriction, fear, or doubt. Through the healing power of words and music, all becomes light and love.